Encounter God Retreat & Instructor's Guide

Egli, Jim

Touch Outreach Ministries

Follow the journey of how the Elim Church in San Salvador has won that great city over to Christ through sacrificial humility, persistence, passion and dedication to a classic cell group model. If you think the G-12 model is a superior way to organize cells and see phenomenal growth, it's time to rethink your position. Elim has grown to 140,000 with the classic 5x5 system overnight. Learn about this church's passion for relationships and how they use the 5x5 model to keep it organized and growing!

Passion and Persistence

Religion & Spirituality

Comiskey, Joel

Christian Books & Bibles

The Answer Book For Small Group Leaders

Randall G. Neighbour

History

Can you envision your group experiencing the supernatural hand of God at work? This book of agendas was created in order to provide your group with enough biblical information and direction to experience this kind of life-long walk with God. Over the course of the next six weeks, your group will examine many common misconceptions about prayer and the nature of God. Each week, your group will discover obstacles to intimacy with God and be given the opportunity to minister to one another and be set free. As obstacles are removed, you will find yourself and your group moving closer in your walk with Him. When this communion with the Creator intensifies, God will plant specific desires within you and you'll see Him move in mysterious and powerful ways!

Looking Upward

Finnell, David

God created us to have close relationships: a relationship with Him, relationships with other believers, and relationships with those who don't yet know Jesus. The difficulty is moving past superficial things like the weather, hobbies, or the dog to share deep things that really matter: who we are and who God is. The cell agendas in this book are designed around the stages of cell group life that bring people into productive biblical community. The innovative icebreakers will have your members smiling, laughing, and maybe even singing! Challenging questions based on the Bible passages will stimulate thought-provoking discussion. The ministry questions will move your members into caring interaction with one another. Connecting Inward was designed to bring your cell group together as extended family!

Connecting Inward

Collins, Mark

This cell agenda book contains six lessons for groups that will increase their prayer life for the lost and teach the group how to successfully reach friends, family, coworkers and neighbors for Christ through relational evangelism. Each week's lesson contains detailed instructions for the group leader, a weekly devotional, helpful notes for each question, "between the meeting" options for follow-up activities, and a weekly scripture memory verse, based on the week's topic.

Reaching Outward

This cell agenda book contains six lessons for groups that will introduce cell leadership in such a way as to develop each member into a leader of a new group. Each week's lesson contains detailed instructions for the group leader, a weekly devotional, helpful notes for each question, "between the meeting" options for follow-up activities, and a weekly scripture memory verse, based on the week's topic. What makes this book powerful is the author's unique way of explaining that healthy small groups are like healthy families. There are spiritual parents and spiritual children, and the goal is not to divorce and split up the family, but help the spiritual children mature to the point that they want to move out of the house and start a spiritual family of their own. Many small group members who complete the six sessions come to the conclusion that they have maintained a concept of group life that is completely unhealthy and must be discarded. Yes, this book is powerful stuff to move complacent members into ministry and mission!

Moving Forward

MacK, Michael C.

With all the excellent books on small group ministry on the market today, one would think the subject has been covered completely. However, the foundational basis for holistic small group ministry (a highly relational set of values) must be in place before holistic small group ministry will thrive. In this new release, Scott Boren does an excellent job dispelling the most common myths about small group ministry. What are the myths? • Doing the right thing (a small group program) without consideration of the right way (the relational way) will produce community. • Meeting in small groups is the central source of biblical community. • Building a new small group ministry structure on top of old stories of church will transform a church and build community. • Groups will succeed if they are built around a specific strategy, method, or model. • Small group community is best fostered in a context whereby the group members focus solely on ministering to the needs of one another. • Small groups can develop biblical community without an overt dependence upon the Holy Spirit. • The small group/large group structure is all that is needed. • Equipping that solely addresses 'right Christian thinking' will adequately prepare people for relational kingdom living and fruitful small group life. • Weak leaders are the ones who require the most care, oversight and direction. • Small groups will grow and multiply if they simply serve as a place to discuss the Bible and connect people in relationships. Each chapter delves into the missional truths about each issue with detailed views from theologians, psychologists, and Boren's own excellent biblical exegesis. If you've struggled with small groups in the past, this book has the answers you have not found in any other book we have published.

The Relational Way: From Small Structures to Holistic Life Connections

Boren, Milton Scott

(This book is a revised &amp; expanded edition of Making Cell Groups Work) TOUCH Outreach has worked with thousands of churches and pastors. Throughout the years, we've made a few key discoveries, which are explained in great detail in How Do We Get There From Here?... -Success with holistic small groups happens when the members of the first groups are fulfilling the unique mission of your church. -Congregational assimilation is a stage six goal, not something you should try immediately. -The transition requires the senior pastor's personal and long-term involvement. -Team implementation is far more successful than a single individual calling the shots. -The transition to holistic small groups is a values shift, not the launching of a new program. These findings are just a small sample of what you will discover in this practical, step-by-step book on holistic small group or cell group implementation! "We'll just do what XYZ Church did" We receive calls from pastors who went to a big church's annual small groups conference, then returned home to launch groups. Most call because they now have groups that are not growing with new leaders or new Christians. If they had only read this book and followed Scott's advice! While we highly recommend visiting other churches doing small groups to learn, we've found that your journey into HSG-based ministry will be vastly different from any other church's pilgrimage. Therefore, your plan of action must be unique as well! How Do We Get There From Here? has the information you need to both understand the process and implement it in your unique congregation. Is this the transition process for you? There are dozens of introductory books on small groups and cell groups, which are excellent reading. But this book is unique. It explains the transition process in a way that guarantees healthy, holistic small groups proven to work in any kind of church.

How Do We Get There from Here?: Navigating the Transformation to Holistic Small Groups

Boren, M. Scott

Tired of reading books by pastors of large churches who could put a stick in the mud and it would grow a fruit-bearing tree in a week? Exhausted with doing ministry the same way, expecting different results? Exasperated by the lack of ownership among the members of your existing groups? Then this book is for you! Pulling no punches, Neighbour diagnoses the problems surrounding small group and cell group ministry in America today, offering practical suggestions that work. Table of Contents: Introduction &amp; Definition of a holistic small group 1 - The naked truth about the American Church: The heart of the house is dead 2 - The naked truth about lead pastors: attitudes and strategies that bastardize the nature of holistic small groups 3 - The naked truth about implementation strategies: common mistakes that promote lethargy and small group closure 4 - The naked truth about relational discipleship: the American church doesn t do it 5 - The naked truth about small group leadership: it s time to breakwith tradition 6 - The naked truth about intergenerational small groups: children are your most powerful small group members 7 - The naked truth about small group-driven churches: guiding principles that produce healthy small groups Appendices &amp; End Notes The Appendices contain a lead pastor's personal assessment for relational ministry; a small group leader's personal assessment for continued development and growth; and an agenda for a small group to use for an hour of prayer.

The Naked Truth About Small Group Ministry

Neighbour, Randall G.

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